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on the names below, or with information on any other Vietnam casualties born in
Ireland or born elsewhere to Irish parents? All information will be treated with
sensitivity and respect for the dead and their grieving family members.

Today
is Memorial Day, when America honours its war dead. At the Vietnam Veterans
Memorial in Washington D.C., a tricoloured wreath will be laid, and Irish flags
placed, in memory of the seventeen Irish soldiers known to have died with US
forces in Vietnam.

One.
That was the official count of Irish-born casualties when Vickie
Curtin,
coordinator of the Washington, D.C. branch of the Coalition of Irish Immigrant
Centers, set out to lay a wreath at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. But surely,
among the more than 58,000 names etched in the black granite panels of The
Wall—as the Memorial is popularly known--1st Lieutenant John Cecil
Driver of Dublin could not be the sole Irishman?